Re: EOL

"John Covici covici-cDiIMnvS3U/[email protected] [EAC]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.eac.user
Organization Covici Computer Systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Well, and this is just a suggestion, you could create a group, upload
all the messages and then just inform people of the group and let them
subscribe.  I don't know how hard it would  be to upload the messages,
so this is suggestion for the moderator.

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:03:36 -0500,
Fred Maxwell [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
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> Based on a sample of 1000 members (the most I can export):
> 
> * About 12% of members receive the messages as a “Daily Digest.”
> * About 12% get only “Special Notices.”  This is where we might announce a new mailing list should one be created.
> * Nearly half, 48%, get no emails, accessing the messages instead by web interface (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/EAC/conversations/messages).
> 
> * Twenty years worth of EAC group messages are available, in a searchable form, at that URL.
> 
> All of those features go away on December 14, with all prior messages being deleted or otherwise made inaccessible by Yahoo.  
> 
> That means that for about 72% of members, the list will no longer work as it does now.
> 
> The loss of all of the prior messages is a crippling one, as those messages contain valuable information on EAC versions, settings, codecs, add-ons, compatibility, problem resolution, etc.
> 
> I remain skeptical about the long-term viability of Yahoo as a host for the EAC group.  I believe that this is the first step in Yahoo’s shutdown of their “Groups" service.  The stripping of feature is probably intended to drive groups
> to seek other service providers.  When Yahoo is satisfied that enough groups have left, I expect that they will announce a date for the complete shutdown of the Groups feature.
> 
> Regards,
>   Fred Maxwell
>   Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup 
> 
>  On Nov 11, 2019, at 2:52 AM, Kit Kimes kitkimes-/[email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
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>  This is really nothing more than a email list.  We don't store files as part of the yahoo group.
>  When I first read Yahoo's email, I was concerned for all the groups I'm part of but really for 
>  most of them nothing is changing.
> 
>  Kit Kimes 
>  Oswego, IL.
> 
>  To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. 
>  John Quincy Adams,  
> 
>  On Sunday, November 10, 2019, 11:39:11 AM CST, Fred Maxwell [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
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>   
>  The group is as live as the members make it — by posting (or not posting) messages.
> 
>  I do not have permission from all of the members of this group to provide their email addresses to groups.io or any other third party.  Nor is it my group to move — Andre is the owner of this group.
> 
>  Regards,
>    Fred Maxwell
>    Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup
> 
>  On Nov 10, 2019, at 12:31 PM, Michael Gillman [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  This group seems to be dead. 
> 
>  On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 09:30 fpesposito-/[email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
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>   
> 
>  Hello --- is anyone moving this group to groups.io? 
> 
> 

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici-cDiIMnvS3U/[email protected]


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